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# steamship

noun (a steamship, steamships)

«steamship» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A large ship driven by a steam engine, which burns coal or oil to boil water and make steam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#m1)

### In the lessons

In history lessons steamships replaced sailing ships, making sea journeys faster and more reliable and helping people emigrate to America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Titanic was a steamship. Phrases: «a steamship company», «travel by steamship».

### Examples

- The family sailed to Australia on a steamship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x1)
- Steamships did not need wind to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x2)
- The Titanic was a huge steamship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x3)
- Smoke poured from the steamship's funnels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x4)
- A steamship could cross the ocean faster than a sailing ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x5)
- The museum has a model of an old steamship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x6)
- If a steamship travels 20 km each hour, it covers 120 km in 6 hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x7)
- It was his opinion that he had really made as great a journey as if he had travelled in a steamship, a railway carriage, or a post-chaise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/#x8)

### Note

One word: «steamship». Also called a «steamer». Shortened in names as «SS» (for steamship), as in «SS Great Britain». In maths travel problems, distance = speed × time.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «steamship» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamship/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«steamship» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/steamship.html) on Mova free.